"When you POLISH the floor you have to MOVE the TREE"

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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Mommie Dearest

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NBates1 — 9 years ago(April 16, 2016 05:40 AM)

Anyone else just love the way she says that line? It cracks me up!
"We all go a little mad sometimes" - Norman Bates

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bregund — 9 years ago(April 23, 2016 12:22 PM)

If you can't do anything right, don't do it at all.

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InherentlyYours — 9 years ago(May 02, 2016 03:01 AM)

polish or clean? You shouldn't have to clean under a plant with dutch cleanser. What's with all the dutch cleanser, and on light surfaces?(lol) Yet, Faye is still punching her words out a tad even on this line

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deem_bastille — 9 years ago(June 18, 2016 10:54 AM)

yeah. when you apply furniture polish to a wooden table that has dust on it, you make a mess, if not mar the table top.
polish means to put a shine in something. Mommie and her 'meat loses its vitamins if it is cooked for too long' and her 'nobody ever said life was fair' should have known better.
Oh God. Fortune
vomits
on my eiderdown once more.

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TotheWatersandtheWild — 9 years ago(May 07, 2016 11:49 PM)

Uncanny. I heard her say it in all its polished emphasis when I read the subject line.
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Anybody remotely interesting is mad in some way

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joeann_21 — 9 years ago(May 09, 2016 10:16 AM)

I feel the same when I hear it - it is almost corny.

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OldFriendOfTheChristys — 9 years ago(May 09, 2016 12:22 PM)

Not only is it an awkward line, but its the exact moment that starts to move the film
away
from straight drama and
toward
camp classic.

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Noir-It-All — 9 years ago(June 16, 2016 06:27 PM)

I get the impression that Joan never let her guard down. By this I mean she never spoke like she did before going into movies then the talkies. Perhaps speaking unnaturally offstage did come across as somewhat false?

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The Kraken — 2 years ago(February 09, 2024 02:52 AM)

Joan was right. That maid was lazy.

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sidgirl — 10 months ago(May 09, 2025 05:38 AM)

"I'm not mad at YOU, I'm MAD at the DIRT!"